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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

18 years of Wedded Bliss

Maybe the entire 18 years hasn't been pure total bliss, but it's been very, very good.

That's starting to feel like a long time... we're old enough to have been married that length of time. Some days I don't feel that old. Others, I feel so much older.

I have never once second guessed our marriage. It's not perfect, of course, but I know we made the right choice.

He's the best guy I ever could have chosen to spend my life with. I know it now more than ever.

Life hasn't always been easy for us and it won't get any easier. We've survived so many disappointments and setbacks. Just staying married is difficult enough, but staying married in the music business, with the long hours and sketchy pay, is an extra challenge. It's so very much worth it.We've got more challenges ahead of us. New career paths for me, adjusting our lives to get more family time, raising two teenagers... and more I haven't even thought of yet.

I can't imagine it any other way than Me And Him Against The World. It does feel like that sometimes. The Me And Him part is the most important.

We've got a lot more years to go and I couldn't be happier about that.

11 comments:

Happy Anniversary Heidi! As my a friend of mine once said, "we've been married way too long, and not long enough, and I wouldn't have it any other way!". Enjoy your day and the fireworks in your neck of the woods!

Congratulation. 18 years is good, the next 18 is better. You'll reach the coming milestone when you have been married longer than b.m. (before marriage).

Personally, I have found marriage to be more work than bliss, but there is contentment, trust, caring, love -- partnership. Next you'll find you're completing each other sentences and following that, each other's thoughts. It gets hard to separate where one ends and the other begins.

So here is to your next 18, I lift my glass, with best wishes to you and Jethro.

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I ride, I read, I write. I share my life with a husband, two teenagers, a Pug, a scary house cat, and three horses. Pink is my favourite colour. I used to hate it but then my brain got rearranged and now I like it so much I sometimes dye my hair pink. I'm slightly crazy and I believe we should all stop saying crazy like it's a bad thing. I write novels - like as in, I start them and actually finish them - and I fully intend to be a published author. I teach people how to ride horses for a living, and I love my job! All I ever wanted to do was ride my ponies and write my stories. Hey, that's what I do! Lucky, lucky me. Join me for horses, trucks, Johnny Depp, antidepressants, beer, trashy pop culture, interior desecrating, Jesus, John Deere, and rock stars. Yeeaahhh! We'll laugh and cry, it'll be fun, c'mon.